Psalm 21

²Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

²asking, “Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”

⁷The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.

⁷My salvation and my honor rest on God, my strong rock; my refuge is in God.

¹⁶But I will sing of Your strength and proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning. For You are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.

¹⁷To You, O my strength, I sing praises, for You, O God, are my fortress, my God of loving devotion.

⁶“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”

⁴Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

⁴May He give you the desires of your heart and make all your plans succeed.

⁵May we shout for joy at your victory and raise a banner in the name of our God. May the Lord grant all your petitions.

⁸Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.

⁹You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”

²⁵Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

⁶He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”

⁷Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes will bow down, because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.”

¹¹My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes.

³⁰Then he took the crown from the head of their king. It weighed a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.

¹⁰My God of loving devotion will come to meet me; God will let me stare down my foes.

²Then David took the crown from the head of their king. It was found to weigh a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.

¹⁹How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!

³⁵“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”

¹⁶With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”

¹⁸the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.

⁷⁷May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.

³It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the Lord has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.

⁵For You have heard my vows, O God; You have given me the inheritance reserved for those who fear Your name.

⁶Increase the days of the king’s life; may his years span many generations.

¹⁷⁵Let me live to praise You; may Your judgments sustain me.

²²who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

²⁰which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,

²¹far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.

⁸When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

⁹And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

¹The point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

²²I have given them the glory You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one—

⁶Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty fill His sanctuary.

²⁸You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’

⁷You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.

¹¹You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.

⁹So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

²⁶When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.

⁸I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

²I will say to the Lord, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

⁷Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.

⁸They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.

¹⁴And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

¹Of David. Vindicate me, O Lord! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.

²I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

¹A Psalm of David. The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

²The Lord extends Your mighty scepter from Zion: “Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

²⁷And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”

²⁵For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.

²⁸Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²⁹How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

¹⁵And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

⁹May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

¹“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

⁸in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

³Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.

⁸Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

²Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.

⁶Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.

²⁸For the Lord loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.

³⁴And this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.

²⁸The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.

²⁰You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.

¹³May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

¹“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

²In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

¹Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

¹⁸And the Lord informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.

¹⁹For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

¹³For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

⁶‘Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and divide it among ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king.’

⁷But this is what the Lord God says: ‘It will not arise; it will not happen.

⁹Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!

¹⁰Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”

¹²If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

¹³He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.

⁴⁰You have made my enemies retreat before me; I destroyed those who hated me.

⁷But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.

¹²He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.

²⁰If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?

⁹Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.

⁵And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these judgments.

⁶For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”

¹After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God!

²For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.”

³and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

⁴Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”

⁵Who is like the Lord our God, the One enthroned on high?

¹¹Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; may Your glory cover all the earth.

¹⁷saying: “We give thanks to You, O Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign.